With lok Sabha elections round the corner, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Tuesday announced to give computer tablets free of cost to Scheduled Caste (SC) students of diploma, under graduate or post-graduate level of technical courses.
A spokesman of Technical Education Department said that it would facilitate the SC students to have access to IT world and also attract them to pursue technical education.
He said that tablets would be provided to SC students of Government or Government aided or private technical institutions like polytechnics, engineering colleges, MBA, MCA, pharmacy, architecture, hotel management colleges duly approved by Haryana State Board of Technical Education or AICTE including technical courses of Universities or deemed Universities established by or under Central or State Act.
SC students of diploma, under graduate or post graduate level of technical courses having Aadhaar or UID number would be eligible to get free computer tablet. The tablets would be given through HARTRON and would be distributed annually among eligible beneficiaries. Tablets costing `4,000 each would be given to about 45,000 SC students presently enrolled in diploma, UG or PG technical courses of all batches. It would cost about `18 crore in the first year during the financial year 2014-15. Thereafter, the same would be distributed amongst only to first year SC students.